General philosophy

General philosophy

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Luitzen Bruuwer

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1881 -1966) Dutch mathematician, founder of mathematical Intuitionism and topology; his derivation of mathematics without use of the "Law of the Excluded Middle" prefigured relativistic and other ...

Martin Buber

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1878-1965) Austrian-Jewish theologian. In Ich und Du (I and Thou) (1922) Buber suggested that genuinely religious experiences must involve reciprocal intersubjective relations between persons rather ...

Andrey Bubnov

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1883-1940) Andrey Bubnov was born in Ivanovo-Voznesensk on 23rd March 1883. He studied at the Moscow Agricultural Institute and while a student joined the Social Democratic labor Party. He supported ...

Bruce Buchanan

Philosophy; General philosophy

Buchanan's main research interest is artificial intelligence, in particular, intelligent computer methods for knowledge acquisition and machine learning, scientific hypothesis formation, and ...

Sir George W. Buchanan

Philosophy; General philosophy

(1854-1924) British ambassador to Russia 1910-1918. Encouraged British intervention against the Bolsheviks.

buddhi

Philosophy; General philosophy

Buddhi comes from a Sanskrit root budh, commonly translated "to enlighten," but a better translation is "to perceive," "to cognize," "to recover consciousness," hence "to awaken," and therefore "to ...

buddhism

Philosophy; General philosophy

The teachings of Gautama the Buddha. Buddhism today is divided into two branches, the Northern and the Southern. The Southern still retains the teachings of the "Buddha's brain," the "eye doctrine," ...